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To: craig crawford who wrote (135225)	11/28/2001 12:19:18 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Jumping to conclusions with no evidence. The facts are: The median life span of Eastern Mediterranean males at that time (late bronze age) was about 39.6 years while their average height was 5'5.7". Hunter-gatherer males of the late Paleolithic period were about four inches taller, but only lived about 35.4 years. Except for a few brief periods since, the average life span of males did not go materially above that 39.6 until you look at the US after 1920. Average heights of males, BTW, also stayed in a fairly tight range of 5'6" to 5'7" throughout history. The average height of US white males since 1920 is only 5'8.6". beyondveg.com The average life span was low because of generally high infant mortality, contagious diseases, intestinal parasites and other problems resulting from the rise in civilization -many people living in close proximity instead of small family groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers. There is no evidence of correlation between longevity and higher or lower meat consumption. Should man have stuck to living as meat and wild plant eating, nomadic hunter-gatherers? We'd all be taller, perhaps, but we'd live half as long. Without the rise of civilization made possible by agriculture, it seems highly unlikely we'd have the medical advances that have been the real drivers of longevity.